TRIBUTE TO MARIO AND MANINGNING MICLAT

On the 25th year since the passing of trilingual poet and artist Maningning Miclat, the Art Foundation named in her honor presents “Alaala/Alang-alang sa Sining 2025,” a dual event that will award prizes in its biennial poetry contest and launch the deluxe edition of Mario I. Miclat’s autobiographical novel, Secrets of the Eighteen Mansions (published by Erehwon Center for the Arts).

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The event will be held on Sept. 29 at 4 p.m. at the UP Asian Center GT-Toyota Auditorium, University of the Philippines campus, Quezon City.

The book has been hailed by National Artists, writers, and critics. “The fiction is Truth alive,” wrote Gémino H. Abad, National Artist for Literature. National Artist for Literature Virgilio S. Almario said, “Mario’s memoir/novel is one of the most creative histories of the rise and fall of the Maoist movement in the Philippines. It is a bold analysis of the strength and weakness of a revolution in modern times, of the expected flexibility and significance of Marxism in our society, of the tragedy of blind submission to ideology, of the need for right education even for cadres of the revolutionary movement, and the morality of the revolution.”